Installing Drupal

I want to make sure I have edited these files correctly. It "works" as is, in that I can get to an opening drupal page at everywomans-selfdefense.org/drupal. But it doesn't work in that all of the links on that page just redirect me to my own home page.

In drupal/includes/conf.php there is a line I edited to use a drupal userid/pw I set up when I created the drupal mysql database

# $db_url = "pgsql://user:password@hostname/database";
$db_url = "mysql://drupauserl:letmein@localhost/drupal";

I've got Drupal installed and I can get to the first page, but when I click on any link on the page, I just get redirected to my home page. I can't create the first user.

See everywomans-selfdefense.org/drupal

I'm trying to configure listhandler to track the mailing lists I have setup with mailman, however I've run into a few problems.

The first of which is that I cannot figure out how mailhanlder/imap_open handles local mbox files, such as the ones mailman places (in Debian) in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/[list].mbox/[list].mbox. I tried just putting that file in the "Folder" option for mailhandler, which saves so long as the webserver process user owns the file. However, if I try to use the retrieve function I get the following error:

When does the navigation block show up? Do you need a certain number of nodes or something? I can see it when i use xtemplate for my theme, but not in either of the other two defaults. I imagine its something simple :-p

Thanks to all the developers for making such a great suite, i hope i can contribute back soon :)

-matt

I installed ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org) first, since the image module's install file said that it had to be installed for image to work correctly. I am using SuSE 9.0 and choose to use the rpm package to install ImageMagick. Then I started the installation of the image module.

In Following the install instructions the first problem was that my copy and paste of the mysql update command didn't work because the Install file gave wrong extension in the command. They used ".sql" instead of ".mysql" which is what the actual file used. Minor but confusing for a newbie.

After you finish the install, the first thing you MUST do is go to Home >> administer >> Images and check to see if there are any errors. It will save you a whole lot of time…. ;-)

When I checked for errors, the first error was: At the location, Home >> administer >> configuration >> modules >> Image -- 'convert.exe' was automatically put in the "Imagemagick Convert path:" box instead of 'convert' which was the files actual name.

The second error was: At the location, Home >> administer >> configuration >> modules >> Image -- it did not like any path that had a leading "/" but it insisted the path have a trailing "/"

The third error was: At the location, Home >> administer >> configuration >> modules >> Image -- it didn't like me creating the default and temporary paths as directories off of the root instead of relative to the Drupal installation directory -- You MUST create them relative to your Drupal installation directory -- i.e. in or in a directory attached to it. (The instructions explicitly told me where they had to be created. Duh…. Sometimes you have to wonder about yourself.)

I'm having trouble with the contextlinks.module. I installed it per the INSTALL file and everything seemingly went well, but the context link syntax doesn't seem to work within any content.

I'm going to guess that the database install feature didn't work correctly, because my MySQL server is behind a proxy and I'm only able to import tables using phpmyadmin. However, the quotes.module works fine and I think it used the same method.

Perhaps it's just me doing something wrong, but I thought I'd send this along for the record.